MIN-GUIDE provided guidance for future mineral policy design, implementation and revision that foster sustainable mineral production innovations. To that end, the project profiled existing EU MS’ minerals policy frameworks as well as facilitated stakeholder knowledge exchange and community building, and used dissemination channels that were tailored to specific target audiences.
Overall, the project results (Online Guide and all project deliverables) provided the baseline on knowledge sharing and learning experiences for participants of MIN-GUIDE events: The Policy Laboratory Workshop and Annual Conference interactive sessions provided unique learning opportunities for participants in terms of knowledge and capacity increase regarding innovation-friendly policy design, implementation, and revision. The MIN-GUIDE approach and feedback surveys demonstrated that these knowledge sharing and learning experiences positively impacted the participants’ daily practical work, because they were: (1) context relevant and useful; (2) applied real world examples; and (3) well communicated through varies facilitation concepts and event sessions.
The continuous development of the Online Guide during the project's lifetime allowed the project team to sequentially feed in project results, promote the Online Guide to a broader stakeholder community and, as a consequence, were able to early on in the project: 1) guarantee usability; 2) support contextualized use by key stakeholders; and 3) provide feedback to the project team for its further elaboration. Therefore, the Online Guide: 1) facilitated a transparent and clear understanding of minerals policy frameworks in EU Member States; 2) informed about innovation potential and spread good practice case knowledge for policy makers and industry alike; and 3) via its open access approach, increased public awareness and acceptance on the mining sectors challenges for the policy sector, businesses & industry, civil society and research stakeholders.
MIN-GUIDE events (3 Annual Conferences and 5 Policy Laboratory Workshops) acted as a platform for networking and community building and, thus, provided many of opportunities to interact, network, and exchange for interested stakeholders. MIN-GUIDE events, operating as an extension of the activities of the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials, set the basis for more deeply integrating the mineral production debates on multiple levels (EU, EU MS, regional), in different policy settings (e.g. circular economy and resource efficiency), among diverse stakeholder groups (industry, policy, civil society etc.), and among existing initiatives.
